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Council shifts gears
on San Antonio plan
HOUSING A HIGHER PRIORITY
IN SHOPPING CENTER AREA
By Kevin Forestieri

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DOWN TO EARTH EXHIBIT
What do they get up to at NASA Ames? A window into the workings of the Moffett-based research
center can be found in downtown Mountain View this month. Exhibits popped up in local businesses,
including this space suit, part of a space biosciences display hosted by Empire Vintage Clothing on Villa
Street. For more on the exhibit, go to page 8.

fter sharp public opposition delayed phase two of
Merlone Geier’s Village at
San Antonio Center project last
week, City Council members
showed signs on Tuesday of
making housing a higher priority in the San Antonio shopping
center area.
At the study session meeting in
the Mountain View Senior Center
on July 8, council members came
to a rough consensus that the San
Antonio precise plan should put
more emphasis on a mix of housing and retail in the San Antonio
shopping center, with limited
exceptions for small office space
and fewer restrictions on office
space north of California Street.

The precise plan is a document
guiding future development in
the area, which is southeast of the
corner of El Camino Real and San
Antonio Road and includes the
San Antonio shopping center.
Mayor Chris Clark said city
staff was directed to expand areas
where housing would be allowed,
and make an overall reduction in
office space in the San Antonio
precise plan. Clark said although
the city cannot require developers to build affordable housing,
the wording in the precise plan
will emphasize that they want a
range of housing options.
Support for more housing by
council members was an aboutface from the February study sesSee SAN ANTONIO, page 9

t didn’t last long. The lastminute deal announced July
1 between developer Merlone
Geier and Milk Pail Market owner Steve Rasmussen to save the
popular European-style market,
Merlone Geier was rescinded just
two days later, putting the future
of the Milk Pail in jeopardy.
The deal would have allocated
11 additional parking spaces at
the San Antonio shopping center
to the Milk Pail, enough to meet
city requirements for the Milk
Pail market to stay in business
past 2016, when its current parking agreement expires.
The deal was revoked following
the July 1 City Council meeting,
where the council voted 6-0 in

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favor of delaying the second
phase of Merlone Geier’s Village
at San Antonio Center development, with John Inks recused.
The council asked for the project
to include 150 housing units in
place of one of the two office
buildings proposed.
In a revocation notice to
Rasmussen by Michael Grehl
of Merlone Geier, it said one of
the conditions of the agreement
was that phase two be approved
on July 1.
In an email to the City Council, Rasmussen said there was a
“false illusion” in the community that the Milk Pail has an
amended parking license that
would allow it to stay in business
beyond 2016.
Rasmussen said the confusion

may be because everything was
decided so quickly leading up to
the July 1 meeting.
“It was all last-minute stuff,”
Rasmussen said. “A lot of stuff
happened in the meeting.”
When reached by phone,
Merlone Geier spokesman Ron
Heckman declined to comment,
and no one else representing the
developer was immediately available to answer questions.
While the July 1 deal is now
history, Rasmussen said he and
Merlone Geier made pretty good
progress, and there’s still a possibility of a long-term solution.
He said he expects there will be a
follow-up with the developer for
a deal in the near future.
Lenny Siegel of the Campaign
for a Balanced Mountain View

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A shopper makes her selections at the Milk Pail Market. Relief over a
parking agreement to keep the market in business was short-lived, as it
was rescinded by the developer two days later.

called the deal with the Milk
Pail political posturing by
Merlone Geier to try to get the
phase two development of the
San Antonio shopping center
passed by the City Council
that night. He said Merlone
Geier representatives must have
thought that attaching the Milk

Pail deal would garner enough
council member votes to pass.
“To me, this letter was a political faux pas,” Siegal said.
As proposed, phase two of the
controversial development project includes two office buildings
See MILK PAIL, page 13

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BRAWL AT BAR
Police arrested a man last Friday after he allegedly threw his
bike lock at someone’s head and punched two patrons at the
O’Malley’s Sports Pub on Old Middlefield Road.
Brian Fabris, a 31-year-old Mountain View man, was kicked
out of the bar and was not allowed back in. At around 12:01
a.m., Fabris allegedly threw his U-shaped bike lock at the victim,
a 35-year-old Santa Clara man, missing his head by less than six
inches, according to Sgt. Saul Jaeger of the Mountain View Police
department. Fabris also reportedly punched the man in the face,
and punched a 29-year-old Mountain View man in the face as
well.
Fabris was arrested and booked into San Jose Main Jail on
charges of assault with a deadly weapon and battery.
—Kevin Forestieri

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of a crackdown on driving while intoxicated over the course of
Independence Day weekend.
Public Information Officer Sgt. Kurtis Stenderup said that
fewer arrests were made this year than in previous years. “I think
that may be in part that it was only a three-day enforcement
period, not four days like last year,” Stenderup said in an email.
No arrests were reported in Mountain View or by Mountain
View police officers over the course of the weekend. The California Highway Patrol reported that the Bay Area had no fatal
accidents over the holiday weekend.
The total number of arrests is provisional, as not every agency
has reported all its arrests, Stenderup said.
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An end to charter
school-district fight?
BULLIS CHARTER AND LASD DRAFT
FIVE-YEAR AGREEMENT
By Kevin Forestieri

to BCS, there is a schedule to
dictate which school has access
itigation and disputes over and at what times. Bullis access
facilities may been a thing to facilities will change over the
of the past for Bullis Char- years, and those changes are
ter School and the Los Altos listed in the agreement.
School district. On Wednesday,
One of those changes includes
July 2, board members from both the use of 9,500 square feet at
BCS and the school district fin- Blach currently occupied by
ished drafting a five-year agree- the Stepping Stones Preschool.
ment that would address a range According to the agreement,
of contentious issues between the LASD will no longer lease faciltwo. Among other
ities to the prethings, the agreeschool as of the
ment would end all ‘Nobody wants 2015-16 school
pending and future
year to make room
litigation against to keep spending for Bullis. All the
one another and
space left by the
millions on
open up room for
preschool will be
BCS to expand.
used for BCS facililegal fees.”
The terms of the
ties except for the
agreement require
parking lot, which
TAMARA LOGAN,
both Bullis and Los
will be shared.
LASD BOARD PRESIDENT
Altos district offiThe terms of
cials to agree on
the agreement also
student enrollment projections call for an end to all current
for the next five years, which and future lawsuits against one
includes annual enrollment caps another over things like Califorfive percent above those projec- nia Environmental Quality Act
tions. For example, BCS can have (CEQA) requirements and equino more than 945 students in the table access to district facilities
2018-19 school year — 45 stu- under Proposition 39.
dents above the projected 900.
Tamara Logan, LASD board
To clear up issues regarding use president, was one of the disof facilities, the agreement out- trict members that drafted the
lines what facilities BCS can use agreement. She said the agreethroughout the day at Blach and ment as a “package,” rather
Egan Middle Schools. For the
shared-use facilities not exclusive
See BULLIS DEAL, page 6

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An officer talks to passersby at Dale Ave at Greenwood Drive during a standoff with an armed
man on July 2.

Standoff with armed man ends peacefully
By Kevin Forestieri

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olice safely detained an
armed and reportedly
suicidal man after he barricaded himself in his Mountain View apartment on July 2,
causing a standoff that lasted
more than five hours.
The Mountain View Police
Department’s Crisis Negotiation Team diffused the tense
situation at 6:20 p.m. when
they convinced the man it was
in his best interest to put down
the gun and come with police,

according to Sgt. Saul Jaeger
of the Mountain View Police
Department.
The situation began at about
12:51 p.m., when a neighbor of
the 46-year-old, whose name
has not been released, called
authorities to request a welfare
check for the man, who reportedly lives in an apartment on
the 1000 block of Williams
Way. Prior to arriving, police
learned that the man was possibly suicidal and might be
armed, Jaeger said.
Police communicated via

phone with the man’s 14-yearold daughter, who was in the
apartment, and were able to get
her out of the building safely.
The man was uncooperative
and came out of the apartment
with a knife, and later produced a handgun and threatened to kill himself, according
to Jaeger.
Police pulled back and
requested assistance, and a
number of local emergency
agencies arrived to the scene,
See STANDOFF, page 13

Council OKs eminent domain
to secure alley rights
By Cooper Aspegren

M

embers of the Mountain View City Council
unanimously approved
the use of eminent domain to
get themselves out of a quandary
caused when they unwittingly
approved the sale of an alley that
was essentially given to a group
of landowners in 1904.
In December, the City Council
approved the sale of a portion of
Washington Alley to Prometheus
Real Estate Group, developers of
a 184-unit apartment complex
on a portion of the alley and the
south end of Stierlin Road. That

sale was recently foiled when
city officials learned that a map
dated September 28, 1904 of
the “Mockbee and Weilheimer”
additions to Mountain View
granted access rights to the area’s
streets and alleys to the property owners in the area. The city
apparently neglected to remove
the rights from Washington
Alley when it was done for other
streets in the area.
The City Council on July 1
voted to use eminent domain
to buy those access rights from
90 property owners, including
29 absentee owners. An independent real estate appraiser

valued the easement rights to be
$1,000, or approximately $11.63
per owner. On May 30, the city
government sent letters offering
$25 to residents willing to cede
their easement rights.
Council member John Inks,
who voted in favor of using eminent domain, noted at the meeting that he opposed the council’s
decision in April 2013 to close the
Central Expressway on-ramp at
the end of Stierlin Road nearby
the apartment construction site,
and that he usually would be
against using eminent domain.
See EMINENT DOMAIN, page 13

olice arrested a man suspected of shoplifting at a
CVS Pharmacy Tuesday
whom they believe is the same
malodorous man who robbed
a bank last week. Officers had
asked for the public’s help in
finding the alleged bank robber
who was described as having a
strong body odor.
William Brackin, a 45-year-old
transient, was allegedly found
stealing cigarettes at the CVS
Pharmacy at 850 California St.
and was spotted by a police officer as he was leaving the store,

BULLIS DEAL
Continued from page 5

than its individual components,
was important in bringing both
sides together and resolving past
issues. She said there was a lot of
give-and-take and neither side
got everything they wanted, with
concessions made on both sides.
Logan said one of the easiest
terms for BCS and LASD to agree
on was ending litigation.
“Phasing out litigation was

according to Sgt. Saul Jaeger
of the Mountain View Police
Department.
A witness described Brackin’s
appearance to a police officer,
and the description matched that
of the man who robbed the Bank
of America branch on Castro
Street on July 1.
At least five police officers surrounded the area and arrested
Brackin on Castro Street at
around 11 a.m. July 8 in front
of Art Frame Studio and Easy
Foods Company.
Jaeger said Brackin was positively identified as a suspect for
the CVS shoplifting, and posi-

tively identified as a suspect in
the July 1 robbery.
Brackin allegedly stole $1,300
in cash from the Bank of America when he handed the cashier a
“demand note” and made away
with the money without the
use of a weapon. Witnesses said
the man had a strong odor that
indicated he hadn’t showered in
a long time.
Brackin was scheduled to be
transported to the San Jose Main
Jail and booked on charges of
robbery and petty theft with a
prior.
Email Kevin Forestieri
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Officers interview a suspect in a shoplifting and a bank robbery in
downtown Mountain View on July 8.

mutual, nobody wants to keep
spending millions on legal fees,”
Logan said.
John Phelps, chairman of the
BCS board, declined to comment
on any individual component of
the agreement, and said he’ll let the
wording in the document speak
for itself. He said the draft was the
result of a concerted effort and
commitment by both BCS and the
school district representatives.
“A lot of hard work went into
to this, with consistent goals for
both sides,” Phelps said.

Joe Seither, a member of the
LASD Citizens’ Advisory Committee for Finance and a member
of the Huttlinger Alliance for
Education, said the agreement
draft took him by surprise. He the
outcome was much better than
past mediation, and the “breadth”
of the agreement is good.
“I’m very encouraged, and I
think it’s a great step forward,”
Seither said.
Like Logan, Seither was happy
to see big concessions from both
sides, including the decision for

Bullis to end litigation against
the district.
“The charter school dropping
litigation is huge,” Seither said.
“They have a very strong legal
team and budget, and it’s a big deal
for them to stand down legally.”
The agreement also says BCS
and LASD will cooperate to
place a bond measure on the
November 2014 ballot that
would help finance more district school facilities to accommodate increasing enrollment
for both parties.

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The five-year agreement will
take the place of annual facilities
use agreements, which has caused
strife in the past. A disagreement
over last year’s agreement led to
the school district changing the
locks on charter school classrooms at Blach for 10 days, causing parent and teacher protests.
But with a five-year plan, both
sides agree that there should be
fewer problems. Phelps said the
long-term plan would “alleviate
a burden on both parties, and
place more focus on students.”

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Don’t leave your computer at home, kids
ALL LAHS STUDENTS REQUIRED TO BRING A LAPTOP TO SCHOOL THIS FALL
By Kevin Forestieri

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long with pencils, pens
and notebooks, students
at Los Altos High School
need to add something else to
their list of school supplies: a
laptop. Los Altos high is bolstering its use of technology in the
classroom, and starting this fall,
all students will be expected to
have a device comparable to a
laptop for class activities.
The new requirement is called
the “Bring Your Own Device”
policy, and has been in the works
for about a year, according to
Galen Rosenberg, assistant vice
principal at LAHS. He said they
looked at two different schools
— Nortre Dame High School in
San Jose and James Logan High
School in Union City — that
implemented a similar BYOD
policy to see what works.
Nortre Dame is a private, Catholic girls’ school that requires
students to bring a device from
home, and does not provide laptops for students who do not have
one or can’t afford one. Rosenberg said it’s easy to implement
device policies at private schools

that can just force everyone to go
out and buy a laptop.
Logan, on the other hand, is a
public school that plans to provide
devices for every student at the
school. It’s not fully implemented
yet, but Rosenberg said a “section”
of their student body now has
school-provided devices.
Between the two extremes —
buying laptops for everyone or
forcing everyone to buy their
own — Los Altos High School
is going for somewhere in the
middle. Rosenberg said he estimates about half of the students
will bring a device from home
to use at school, and the other
half will need devices provided
by the school. So to kick off the
policy, the school will buy about
800 Chromebooks, a Google
device similar to a laptop, for the
roughly 1,800 students attending
LAHS this fall.
Los Altos High School will use
grant money from Google and the
MVLA High School Foundation
to fund the new policy. Most of
the money will go into purchasing
hundreds of Chromebooks.
Not any old device will do,
though. The policy requires that

the device have at least an 11-inch
screen, and cannot be a iPad or
other tablet device. Rosenberg
said things like the iPad, which
can be used for some classroom
activities, has a limited capacity
for creating and sharing documents through the cloud — a key
component to the BYOD policy.
He said with laptops, students
will be able to easily share created
media, audio and video content
with each other.
Chromebooks will be checked
out at the beginning of the
year, similar to a textbook, and
will be returned at the end of
the school year. LAHS is also
discussing the possibility that
students could rent a laptop at
the beginning of freshman year
and keep it until graduation.
Rosenberg said the requirement

may seem strange or unreasonable to people who aren’t familiar
with today’s technology, but
cloud computing and a personal
digital devices are the norm in
college and many high schools,
and the price point —about $225
per Chromebook — is feasible.
He said most students will be
ready for the school-wide tech
upgrade, and already use devices
to augment their schoolwork.
“This is where kids are gonna
be if they aren’t already,” Rosenberg said. “Some teachers already
know what they’re going to do
with the devices.”
In a document shared with
LAHS staff titled “Learning in
the Cloud: BYOD Rationale,”
school administrators said they
looked at the plethora of possible problems that could come
up with a BYOD policy. Things
like lost or broken devices, maintenance, theft, proper use and
supervision were all taken into
consideration, and found to be

“surmountable” problems and a
worthwhile trade-off.
Rosenberg said less than 10
percent of other student bodies
had problems with devices, and
there’s a tendency to think losing or damaging a Chromebook
is much different than losing or
damaging other school supplies.
He said if students lose their
jerseys, a textbook or even a helmet, those can add up to a few
hundred dollars as well.
One perk to the new device
policy is that everyone, wealthy
or not, will have access to a personal digital device as a school
resource. Rosenberg said starting
next year, every student will be
on even footing. He said there
will be some envy when students
bring in their fancy computers,
and there’s no way to account for
inequity in Internet access, but
the BYOD policy is a good start.
“In terms of equity, this is a
huge step forward,” Rosenberg
said.
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NASA AMES CELEBRATES 75TH ANNIVERSARY WITH EXHIBITS AROUND TOWN
By Kevin Forestieri

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eople walking through
downtown Mountain
View might find space
shuttles, robots and astronaut
suits popping up in the windows of popular businesses.
That’s because the NASA Ames
Research Center is celebrating
its 75th anniversary with 17
exhibits sprinkled throughout

Mountain View and Sunnyvale.
The exhibits are part of NASA
Ames’ “Living Museum,” which
runs the entire month of July and
will feature past and present scientific endeavors by the research
center. The exhibits range from
informational posters and lit-up
displays to aircraft models and
tools used for space research.
So whether it’s a model aircraft flying overhead at the

Tied House or retired satellite
equipment propped up in the
bookstore, keep an eye out for
space-age technology sprinkled
throughout the city.
A full list of the 17 locations
can be found on the NASA
Ames website and in pamphlets
on the first floor of Mountain
View City Hall. For more information, contact Sheila Johnson
at 650-604-5054.
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Several complicated gadgets sit behind the window at the Odd
Fellows Hall at Castro and Villa streets for the CheMin Instrument
display. Short for chemistry and minerology, CheMin instruments
use x-ray diffraction to let researchers at NASA Ames peer into the
past and see what ancient Martian environments were like — and
maybe find clues of life on Mars. CheMin One, designed in 1991, is
about the size of a breadbox because it had to fit inside Curiosity, the
Mars rover. According to the display, it took 20 years of technological
development to bring CheMin One down from the size of a large
cabinet to its current dimensions.

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as a priority in the San Antonio
area. Council member Mike
Kasperzak said the council is taking a step back from the direction
they were going in February.
“We seriously de-emphasized
housing in February, and the
decision we’re trying to come
up with now is to de-emphasize
retail or office in favor of housing,” Kasperzak said.
Council member Ronit Bryant
said the shift in priorities comes
from the community feedback,
which calls for a better balance
between newly developed jobs
and housing in Mountain View.
The San Antonio precise plan,
as proposed last month, would
allow for 879,000 square feet of
office space in the San Antonio
shopping center and surrounding blocks. This would create
anywhere from 4,395 to 5,860
jobs, but only 1,575 homes.
“What we heard really clearly
from the community is we’re
building enough office space,”
Bryant said. “We need to leave it
flexible, and I would like to put
housing and retail mixed use in
and encourage restrictions on
office.”
This mixed use of residential
and retail might include buildings with housing units on floors
above retail stores. Kasperzak did
voice some concern that maintaining a housing-retail proportion might make it difficult for
developers in the area.
“My concern is that if retail
establishments want to build a
new store, like a Kohl’s, if it makes

environmental impact analysis,
forcing city staff to revisit the
precise plan overall. City planner
Rebecca Shapiro said a change
in the environmental analysis
would delay phase two planning
beyond the end of the year, but
working within the boundaries
is a “workable plan.”
Clark said there’s plenty of
leeway in the environmental
impact report (EIR), and that
the threshold is around 10 times
the previously proposed housing
numbers. He said reaching the
1,900-some housing unit cap
would take years, and a new environmental impact analysis could
be done later down the road to
avoid delaying current plans.
“I think the numbers are okay
from an EIR perspective,” Clark
said. “Council should decide
how much they should push for
housing.”
Lenny Siegel and other members of the Campaign for a Balanced Mountain View attended
the meeting. The group spearheaded the community outcry
for a balanced jobs-housing ratio
in the San Antonio Precise Plan
and threatened to put a referendum on the ballot if the plan was
approved as-is.
Siegel said the council has
come a long way in responding to the community and he’s
pleased with their progress, but
they still have further to go. He
said he was disappointed that
the council member’s discussion was very narrow, and didn’t
reference many of the concerns
from the public.
“They missed the whole point
in trying to create a livable community,” Seigel said.
Siegel said that “livable com-

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it kind of complicated for developers who know they need to deal
with this residential proportion
requirement,” Kasperzak said.
Bryant said that the current
San Antonio plan lacks focus,
and though the public support
has been in favor of more housing over office space, Bryant said
it’s important to remember it is a
“shopping” center.
“We’re just all over the place
with the precise plan,” Bryant
said. “If we had a picture of what
we wanted it to look like, it would
be better.
Bryant suggested a scenario
where the shopping center would
have retail, a range of different
housing options and limited
office space.
“I think we could come up with
something very interesting,” Bryant said.
Clark said he supported limited options for office space in
the mixed residential and retail
areas of the shopping center, and
said restricting the area with no
wiggle room for small offices
sounded like an onerous policy.
“We should make sure there’s
no unintended consequences
where we can’t allow a small,
20,000 or 30,000 (square foot)
office space in an area of mixeduse,” Clark said.
Along with finding ways to
pinpoint lower office space in the
plan, council members considered “phasing” options, where
office space could be capped at a
certain square footage until more
retail and residential development gets added.
There were some initial concerns that the additional housing in the precise plan could
go beyond the threshold of the

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The San Antonio precise plan area includes the San Antonio
shopping center and a “mixed-use corridor” above California Street
and San Antonio Road.

munity” should include a neighborhood school — something
that was not mentioned once at
the study session meeting Tuesday. Seigel said a school in the
San Antonio precise plan area
makes sense from the point of
view of people in the area who
want to live in a family community, and it makes sense from the
point of view of traffic.
Siegel said council members
need to consider family-friendly
housing, and that so far the housing designed in the San Antonio
area has discouraged kids.

“Even young people are speaking out,” Siegel said. “They want
to settle down in the area and
have a family, and solving the
housing problem isn’t just the
number of units.”
Clark said a new draft of the
plan with council member feedback will be available in September, and the City Council will
likely have another study session
on the draft. Council members
are slated to vote on the new
draft by the end of this year.
Email Kevin Forestieri
at kforestieri@mv-voice.com

AND THE
ROCKET’S
RED GLARE
Fireworks explode
over the Shoreline
Amphitheatre,
bringing the
San Francisco
Symphony’s
annual Fourth of
July concert to a
dramatic climax. All
afternoon, those
who hadn’t scored
tickets to the
concert filled the
surrounding hills
at Shoreline Park
to picnic and enjoy
the spectacular
display once the
sun had set.

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Community connections make theater work
STAGE COMPANY THEATREWORKS THRIVES ON SILICON VALLEY CULTURE
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hile many of the organizations putting the
“silicon” in Silicon
Valley have rocketed out of
the recession, leaving a trail of
highly paid tech workers and
higher rents in their wake, other
sectors of the local economy are
still fighting their way back from
the 2008 collapse, and some arts
organizations have not been able
to survive.
The New York City Opera
was forced to close its doors in
2013, and the San Jose Repertory Theatre filed for bankruptcy just weeks ago. However,
TheatreWorks, the third-largest
theater company in the Bay Area
continues to soldier on.
Robert Kelley, founder and
artistic director of TheatreWorks
thinks his company has been able
to weather the storm because
of its deep connection to Palo
Alto, where it is based, and the
surrounding area. TheatreWorks
alternates its productions between
the Mountain View Center for the
Performing Arts and the Lucie
Stern Theatre in Palo Alto.
“I’m very much a part of this
area, this region,” Kelley says. “I
grew up here. All of my experiences in the theater were here —
both at the Children’s Theatre, the
Lucie Stern and at Stanford. I feel
that there’s a real strong connection between TheatreWorks and
the community, as a result. And
the values of this community are
represented on our stage.”
Kelley’s local upbringing is
not the only reason his organization has become so intertwined with Silicon Valley.
The connection TheatreWorks
shares with the Midpeninsula
and the South Bay were hard
won over years of direct outreach through programs and
initiatives aimed at encouraging the creation of new theatrical work, because ultimately, as
Kelley sees it, that is where the
future of the theater lies.
Kelley says he started TheatreWorks back in 1970 with the
idea that “the art of creating,
not just performing” would
be heavily emphasized. Indeed,
the company’s first production,
“Popcorn,” was written and produced locally and was about local
issues, Kelley says.
Since then, the company has
grown from a grassroots community theater, to the premier
stage company in Silicon Valley
and is now nationally recognized
both for the high caliber of its
professional productions, as well
as for its stellar original works
and world premiers — such as
the play that will lead off the

Megan McGinnis, Hayden Tee, Colin Hanlon, and Riley Krull perform
a sing-through of “Being Earnest” at the 2012 New Works Festival. The
show had its world premiere at TheatreWorks in 2013.

company’s 45th season.
When the curtains part at the
Lucie Stern Theatre this week, the
audience gathered in the Palo Alto
hall will be the first to take in the
bittersweet dramedy, “The Great
Pretender,” in its fully realized
form. However, it’s quite possible
that some who plan to attend
the first preview performance of
the production on July 9 already
witnessed some version of the play
last summer, when its director
and writer, David West Read, was
working out the kinks on the very
same stage, at TheatreWorks’ 12th
annual New Works Festival.
Kelley launched the New Works
Festival during the company’s
2001-02 season. It functions as
an extensive play and musical
workshop, which affords the creators of five nascent productions
the opportunity to have their
plays and musicals read before
a live audience, so that they may
see what works, what doesn’t
and get direct feedback from the
theatergoers so that they might
improve their productions.
Read is originally from Toronto and has been living in New
York for most of the past six
years working in theater. He was
drawn to the New Works Festival for the opportunity it would
afford him to engage directly
with a trial audience.
“I had a great experience
doing the New Works Festival,”
Read says. “I think what sets the
New Works Festival apart is that
you get a number of readings in
front of a few hundred people.
... It’s a great opportunity to be
in dialog with the audience and
also make them a part of the
development process.”
Having conversations with
audience members and seeing
what is working and what isn’t
was incredibly valuable, he says,
especially when it came to writing
jokes. When an audience doesn’t
laugh, Read reasons, that means

it’s time to work on that joke.
The Tony Award-winning
musical “Memphis” is perhaps
the highest-profile production to
come out of the New Works Festival, where it saw its first live read
in 2002 and its first proper staging
through TheatreWorks in 2004.
“There are parts of ‘Memphis’
that were changed and modified
because of people right here,” Kelley says of the production. “I find
that very exciting.”
In addition to the New Works
Festival, TheatreWorks encourages the creation of new theater
in other ways, such as in its youth
programs.
Through various summer
camps and other one-off events,
such as the 24 Hour Play Festival,
TheatreWorks encourages children from kindergarten through
high school to pen and produce
their own plays. “All our youth
programs are based on the premise that doing new work is what
the theater is about,” Kelley says,
noting that one recent highlight
in his professional life was seeing
a group of kindergarten to fourthgraders produce a “hilarious” and
“immensely creative” play.
Kelley also says that Silicon
Valley, with its do-it-yourself
ethos, spirit of entrepreneurship
and highly educated, cultured
population has had a profound
influence on TheatreWorks.
The New Works Festival, he
says, is reflective of the “underlying spirit of the Silicon Valley
and what’s going on here. It’s
just a sense of creativity done in
collaboration. There is this very
palpable sense that the audience
is part of the process — because
they are.”
Kelley adds that the “professionalization” of the region has
resulted in a population that
expects “the highest quality of
everything,” and TheatreWorks

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would normally be the last
person in the city to support
this, but eminent domain is the
most efficient way to get land
that we have been treating as
our own,â&#x20AC;? Inks told the Voice
prior to the vote.
City officials said they believe

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including Mountain View police
and fire officials, members of
the Sunnyvale Public Safety
Department and the SWAT
team, according to Shino Tanaka, public information officer
with the Mountain View Police
Department.
Police officers evacuated up
to six nearby residents from the
area, and told other neighbors to
shelter in place while emergency
responders work to resolve the
situation. One resident said two
officers came to his door around
2 p.m. and told him and anyone
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has been doing its best to deliver.
Of course, Kelley allows, Silicon
Valley has also been the cause of
some pretty steep competition to
the theater business. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are
getting their entertainment on
their tablet, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting it on
their smart phone,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
a challenge, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a challenge
that has grown.â&#x20AC;?
However, Kelley is hopeful that
there are enough people out there
who see the world of theater the
way he does.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to hear a real voice,
I want to see a bead of sweat, I
want to have my heart broken
or watch it soar,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What
we have to offer is intimacy, the
risk, the human connection of
live theater. I think our task is
to convince a new generation
that has so many more options
for entertainment, that the live
experience is not only irreplaceable but also unmatchable.â&#x20AC;?
Email Nick Veronin
at nveronin@paweekly.com.

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hotel, a large public square,
109,000 square feet of retail
space, a 50,000-square-foot
movie theater and a six-level
parking garage with just over
1,300 parking spaces, and an
office garage with 1,174 spaces.

Siegel said when the City
Council does finally approve
phase two, the pressure will be
on Merlone Geier to make a deal
work with the Milk Pail.
Email Kevin Forestieri
at kforestieri@mv-voice.com

using eminent domain will also
prevent vehicles from traveling
through the vacated portion of
Washington Alley, which risks
harming bicyclists and pedestrians.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to eliminate any
conflicts between the vehicles
and bicyclists and pedestrians,â&#x20AC;?
City Attorney Jannie Quinn said
at the meeting.
An independent contractor

concluded that using eminent
domain would create no negative
economic impact on lot owners along Washington Alley and
Stierlin Road. Inks said he doubts
that any residents would face detrimental financial consequences.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting screwed,
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prometheus because of the
delay in construction,â&#x20AC;? he said.
Email Cooper Aspegren
at caspegren@mv-voice.com

and that there was an armed
man in the area.
Jaeger said the man communicated with the Crisis Negotiation
Team through his door frame
and his car port, no more than
50 feet from the team. The total
standoff lasted about five and a
half hours.
Several streets surrounding
the residence were cordoned
off, and residents of the area

were not permitted to enter the
perimeter to come home. Police
blocked off three intersections
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dale Avenue and Greenview Drive, Dale Avenue and
Williams Way, and Greenview
Drive and Crestview Drive â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
effectively limiting access to the
L-shaped Williams Way.
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LIBRARY HOSTS BIKEFEST
The Mountain View Public Library will hold Bikefest, a street
festival-style biking celebration, as part of its Library Bike Stop
initiative from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 12. The event
will take place at the nearby parking lot at Franklin Street and
Pioneer Park.
Bikefest is intended for all ages and any kind of bike. It will feature spin-art making, a bike rodeo, free tune-ups, fitness classes
and other activities.
Library Bike Stop has provided for the installation of a Dero
Fixit station in front of the library. In a press release, librarian
Emily Weak said that the initiative will supply a greater number
of books, tools and bike-related programming in the library.
For more information, contact Weak at emily.weak@mountainview.gov or 650-526-7020. To register, got to http://goo.gl/
Hln4h6.

LOCAL DIGITS FOR SOCIAL SERVICES OFFICE
In an effort to reinforce its local, North County location, the
Santa Clara County Social Service Agency (SSA) office has been
given new telephone numbers with the 650 area code.
The office, previously located on Moffett Boulevard, recently
relocated to 1330 W. Middlefield Road after concerns that it
would move to San Jose, making access difficult for the North
County residents for whom the agency provides services.
Supervisor Joe Simitian requested that the office be granted the
650 area code extensions.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keeping local services truly local has been a priority for me
from my first day in county office,â&#x20AC;? Simitian said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know how
important these programs are for many people in North County,
notwithstanding its reputation as a prosperous place.â&#x20AC;?
County residents can access Medi-Cal health care coverage,
CalFresh food assistance and Calworks general support through
the SSA. These programs are funded by the state government and
operated by the county government.
For information about Medi-Cal and CalFresh, call 650-9886200. For information about CalWorks, call 650-988-6270.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Cooper Aspegren

s it election year politics, or can it be that the City Council
is finally seeing the light regarding the destructive consequences of Mountain Viewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jobs-to-housing imbalance?
Whatever the case may be, council members took a welcome
step in the right direction in delaying action on the proposal
for phase two of the Village at San Antonio Center, indicating
they want housing to be included. As desperation increases
among residents unable to afford skyrocketing rent increases,
would-be residents who work here canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find housing at all,
and frustration mounts among locals trying to traverse gridlocked roadways. It is long past the time to get serious about
this problem.
Although some 350 apartments were included in phase one
of the project, developer Merlone Geier proposed no housing
at all for the second part of its project; the proposal calls for
construction of two, six-story office buildings, 109,000 square
feet of retail, a hotel and a movie theater, and multiple parking
garages.
Increasingly frustrated advocates of more housing in town
have criticized the plan and threatened placing a referendum
on the November ballot to overturn approval of a plan that
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t include housing. That wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen because the council
isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expected to act on the proposal until after the mid-August
deadline for putting a measure on that ballot. Campaign for a
Balanced Mountain View, the advocacy group that is considering a referendum, would have to wait until next year to put the

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OPEN SPACE DISTRICT
DIRECTOR SAYS â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THANKSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
I would like to thank all the
voters in Mountain View for
their overwhelming support
for the Midpeninsula Regional
Open Space Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Measure
AA for open space access, preservation and restoration, which
passed by a greater than 2-to-1
margin last month. I also want
to thank the Mountain View
City Council and this paper for
their strong endorsements.
Your support authorizes the
district to issue bonds of up to
$300 million to add 200 miles of
new trails, increase recreational
access for residents of all ages,
and preserve and restore thousands of acres of open spaces,
forests, streams, wetlands and
farmlands throughout the district which stretches from Los

Gatos and East Palo Alto to
north of Half Moon Bay.
This money will be carefully
utilized on the 25 high-priority
areas as outlined by the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public vision planning
process in which many of you
participated.
I welcome your participation in the next phases of these
high-priority projects through
a transparent and inclusive
process involving meetings, discussions and opportunities for
community involvement. More
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and trust in your Midpeninsula
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question to voters, should the council approve the project as
submitted. We hope that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be necessary, and that council
members follow through on their implied commitment to
require housing in phase two.
Council commitment to solving the housing imbalance
problem hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been apparent in recent years, with the council
approving job-generating office projects, or zoning for such
projects, at a rate that far outpaces the creation of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
housing capacity. According to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general plan, adopted
in 2012, Mountain Viewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoning allows for an estimated 36,000
new jobs, with up to 6.4 million square feet of new office space,
but only 7,000 new homes, by 2030.
Two years ago, a divided council voted against zoning for
1,100 new homes in North Bayshore, along Shoreline Boulevard
between Highway 101 and Charleston Road. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
home turf, and the tech giant supported the housing proposal,
as did the Chamber of Commerce. The precise plan now being
crafted for North Bayshore may allow office growth for as many
as 20,000 new jobs at Google, LinkedIn and other firms, with
no new housing in that area.
At its July 1 meeting, a number of residents weary of the
councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to find solutions to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s housing crisis
urged a housing requirement in phase two of the Village. Edie
Keating of Peninsula Interfaith Action summed up the situation
admirably: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a great project; you need to make it morally right by substituting the office for housing.â&#x20AC;?
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read the Voice’s issue of July
4 regarding the Village at
San Antonio Center development with interest. Agreed,
Mountain View has a growing
jobs-housing imbalance issue.
But it also has a housing-schools
imbalance that is equally, perhaps even more, urgent.
Where exactly do the proponents of adding more housing
in this increasingly dense and
redeveloping part of Mountain
View propose to school the
kids of families moving into
all those new large apartment/
condo complexes in this and
nearby projects? This section of
the city experiencing new highdensity redevelopment extends
well beyond the Village. It
encompasses the length of San
Antonio between El Camino
and Caltrain, extending several
blocks east to Showers and west
to Palo Alto on either side of San

Antonio. Multiple hundreds of
new and under-construction
housing units have been and
continue to be added.
This particular part of Mountain View lies within the Los
Altos Elementary School District. The two nearest LASD
schools, Santa Rita and Almond,
which serve the children of this
area, are already impacted and
over-capacity (as is every one
of the other six LASD schools).
Getting to Santa Rita and
Almond schools for Mountain
View kids in this neighborhood
entails risk and inconvenience.
It means crossing El Camino
twice each day, and walking
considerable distances without
school bus service — a considerable burden on their working
parents.
Adding ever more high-density housing in this north-of-El
Camino neighborhood without
adding a local neighborhood
school to serve these kids shirks

responsibility. Unfortunately,
MountainView seems to have
side-stepped this issue. Was this
need considered or even discussed by anybody in Mountain
View? Lenny Siegel and his housing proponents? Planning staff
and commission? City management and council? Developers?
The Voice? Anyone?
LASD, including Bullis Charter, does a great job educating
Mountain View, Los Altos and
Los Altos Hills kids. But only
Springer is located within the
city of Mountain View. Mountain View needs to step up and
work together with LASD, to
help LASD find another suitable school location within this
higher-growth part of the city.
The burden of solving this evergrowing capacity issue should
not fall on Los Altos alone.
Frank Verlot is a former city
councilman and mayor of Los
Altos.

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she had been throwing around with
friends — to create a gourmet version of Klondike’s classic Choco Taco
frozen dessert and sell it out of a food
truck — interrupted her thoughts.
So she did what any rational person
would do. She went on Amazon and
purchased a waffle iron, and spent the
next few months tinkering with waffle
cone recipes to create the best possible
version to roll up into a taco shell and
stuff with ice cream.
In April, Phillips’ idea became a
reality when she launched Rocko’s Ice
Cream Tacos, peddling her carefully
created, all-organic treats out of a cart,
and eventually, a full-fledged food
truck, around the Bay Area.
For those who have missed out on
the dessert Phillips is riffing on, Choco
Tacos have three main components:
a sweet waffle cone shell, vanilla ice
cream and a chocolate-nut coating to
top the whole thing off.
Rocko’s Ice Cream Tacos take that
Left: Lori Phillips, owner of Rocko’s Ice
Cream Tacos, drizzles peanut butter
sauce on one of her frozen treats.
Below: A “taco” made with espresso
ice cream and dipped in dark chocolate
and peanut butter sauce.

N F O O D F E AT U R E

OLD TREAT
WITH A NEW

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STORY BY ELENA KADVANY
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to the next level, transforming
the mass-produced, artificially
flavored treat with Bay Area sensibilities. Rockoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taco shells are
made with wheat and barley that
Phillips gets from a local farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
market. The ice cream is organic,
made locally by a Redwood City
woman, and comes in a range of
flavors beyond vanilla â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including chocolate, espresso, salted
caramel, mint chip, strawberry,
peanut butter and vegan chocolate chip. Flavors like strawberry
are only offered when the ingredients are in season.
The coating is made with
chocolate from San Francisco
luxury chocolate-maker TCHO.
All coffee, chocolate and sugar
is fair trade and everything is
purchased as locally as possible,
Phillips said.
Customers can order any combination of flavors like salted
caramel dipped in dark chocolate;
espresso dipped in white chocolate or strawberry dipped in peanut butter, and add toppings like
cocoa nibs, almonds, pistachios
or even bacon. The tacos are made
on the spot, something made
possible through the increasingly
popular use of liquid nitrogen,
which allows for rapid freezing.
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Lori Phillips graduated from a cart to a food truck for selling her ice cream tacos in the Bay Area.

“There are a lot of things that you
can do with this idea.”
Phillips seems like such a natural within the Bay Area sweets
world that it’s hard to imagine
her doing anything else. But
the East Palo Alto resident is a
neuro-scientist by training.
Phillips grew up in Union
City and got her undergraduate
degree at the University of California at Santa Cruz, majoring

in neuroscience and minoring in
chemistry. She came to Stanford
to get her doctorate in immunology, spending six years working
on stem cell transplantation
for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
disease. But she was drawn to
entrepreneurship, and a Stanford
business school crash course on
all-things-startup roped her in.
“So I just decided that I was just
going to start a business myself,”
she said. “And science businesses
are exponentially more difficult

to start than food businesses. ...
A food business was really easy
for me to do on the budget that
I had and the spare time that I
had, which wasn’t much, while
finishing up my PhD and writing my thesis. I was able to get
together the idea and start working on the recipes.”
Her goal was to make something delicious that people could
also feel good about putting in
their bodies, with ingredients
they could trust. After buy-

A chocolate-dipped banana is one of Rocko’s non-taco offerings.

ing the waffle iron that fateful
night, she spent time tinkering
with recipes for the waffle-taco
shell, never abandoning her scientific tendencies.
“Cooking is very similar to science,” she said. “You look at different protocols that are out there
to do it; you decide on one, give
it a try, tweak it. So that’s what I
did with waffle cone recipes.”
Once she perfected the recipe,
she started making the tacos for
friends and garnered enough
support to purchase a cart. She
started at the Palo Alto farmers
market on Saturdays and eventually got into various foodie
gatherings like Off the Grid at
Fort Mason in San Francisco
(Rocko’s is there every Friday
evening) as well as Sunnyvale
and Oakland’s Jack of All Trades
Market. The Rocko’s Facebook
page (facebook.com/RockosIceCreamTacos) has updates
on where to find the truck.
This spring, she graduated to a
white food truck with an outline
of the face of Phillips’ dog, the
maltese-chihuahua mix that is
the company’s namesake, emblazoned on the side. The extra
space means the menu addition
of frozen bananas ($2), ice cream
cake pops ($3, in flavors like red
velvet, banana cake, devil’s food,
tiramisu and vanilla), and coffee

N I N F O R M AT I O N
Rocko’s Ice Cream Tacos is
scheduled to be at the Los
Altos Art & Wine festival all
day on Saturday and Sunday,
July 12 and 13. The festival
is located in downtown
Los Altos at Main and State
streets from 10 a.m. to 6
p.m. Festival information is
at downtownlosaltos.org.
Updates on other places to
find the Rocko’s truck are on
Facebook at facebook.com/
RockosIceCreamTacos.

and hot chocolate ($3). Tacos are
$3.50 each, with chocolate dip
included; toppings are an extra
50 to 75 cents.
Though Phillips wants to keep
the Rocko’s offerings simple as
to not overwhelm customers, it’s
clear she’s also eager to expand.
She said she dreams of developing a chocolate flavored taco shell
or a stroopwafel cone based on
the Dutch dessert, a thin wafflecookie sandwich with a caramellike filling in the middle. She said
she’d love to open a brick-andmortar shop, which would allow
her wild, Choco Taco-fueled
dreams to become reality.
Elena Kadvany can be emailed
at ekadvany@paweekly.com.

MAPPING THE FUTURE

College Destinations for Mountain View and Los Altos High Schools Class of 2014
Quest University Canada (1), Simon Fraser University (1)
University of British Columbia (5), University of Victoria (1)
The Evergreen State College (1)
University of Washington (15)
University of Puget Sound (7)
Western Washington University (1)
Washington State University (4)
Oregon State University (3)
University of Portland (1)

Willamette University (6)

University of Oregon (14)

Humboldt State University (2)

Montana State University, Bozeman (3)

California State University, Sacramento (4)
Sacramento City College (1)
University of California
Universal Technical Institute (1)
at Davis (23)
University of the Pacific (3)
Sonoma State University (8)

Academy of Art University (1), California College of the Arts (San Francisco) (2)
California State University East Bay (2), College of San Mateo (1)
Cogswell Polytechnical College (1), De Anza College (44), Dominican University of California (1)
Foothill College (139), Mission College (6), Saint Mary's College of California (1)
San Francisco State University (10), San Jose State University (26), Santa Clara University (12)
Stanford University (4), University of California at Berkeley (21), University of California at Santa Cruz (20)
University of San Francisco (6), West Valley College (4)

University of Wisconsin,
Madison (2)
Marquette University (1)

DePaul University (1), Northwestern University (4)
University of Chicago (2)
Iowa State University (1)
Scott Community College (1)
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (4)

Sierra Nevada College (1)
University of Nevada, Reno (2)

Xavier University (1)

Brigham Young University (4)

University of Kansas (1)

Colorado State University, Pueblo (1)

Duke University (3)
Vanderbilt University (1)

Northern Arizona University (1)
Southwestern Oklahoma State University (1)

Different Paths
Clark Atlanta University (1)
Emory University (3)

University of New Mexico (1)

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (4)
Claremont McKenna College (1)
University of California at Riverside (4)
University of Redlands (1)

University of Virginia (1)

New River Community College (1)

University of Alabama (1)

Arizona State University (3)

California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo (29)

Southern Virginia University (1)

Washington University in St. Louis (2)

University of Colorado at Boulder (4)
University of Denver (3)

ITT Technical Institute (1)
University of California at Merced (7)

Azusa Pacific University (1), Biola University (1)
California State University, Fullerton (2)
California State University, Long Beach (1)
Chapman University (13)
Loyola Marymount University (5)
Occidental College (3)
Pepperdine University (1)
Pitzer College (1)
Scripps College (1)
University of California at Irvine (3)
University of California at Los Angeles (17)
University of Southern California (14)
Whittier College (4)

Carleton College (1)
St. Olaf College (2)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (1)

Boise State University (1)

University of Utah (1)
Utah State University (2)

California State University, Chico (7)

University of California at Santa Barbara (26), Santa
Barbara City College (3), Westmont College (1)

Carroll College (1)

University of Idaho (2)

Lewis & Clark College (1)
Reed College (1)

Becker College (1), Bentley University (2)
Berklee College of Music (2)
Boston College (2), Boston University (5)
Boston Conservatory (1),
Bates College (1)
Bowdoin College (2) Clark University (1), Emerson College (3)
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (2)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (3)
New England Conservatory of Music (2)
Northeastern University (7)
Suffolk University (1), Tufts University (2)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1)
Brown University (1)
Vassar College (1)
Rhode Island School of Design (2)
Connecticut College (2), Yale University (2)
Cornell University (5)
University of Connecticut (1)
Calvin College (1) Michigan State
Pace
University
(1), Pratt Institute (1)
University (3)
Bucknell University (2)
New York University (8), Stevens Institute of Technology (1)
Pennsylvania State University (1)
Princeton University (1), Rider University (1),
University of Michigan (6) Carnegie Mellon
University (1)
Case Western Reserve
Dickinson College (1) Swarthmore College (1), University of Pennsylvania (3)
Villanova University (1)
University (3)
The College of Wooster (1)
John Hopkins University (2), United States Naval Academy (1)
University
Denison University (1)
of Notre Dame (1)
University of Maryland, College Park (1)
American University (1), George Washington University (1)
Purdue University (3)
West Virginia
Georgetown University (1), Howard University (1)
University (1)

Ateneo de Manila University, Phillipines (1)
Manila Doctors College (1)
Newcastle University, London (1)
Royal Holloway, University of London (1)
Trinity College, Dublin (1)
University of Hong Kong (1)

Texas Christian University (1)

University of Arizona (6)
Baylor University (1)
Austin Community College (1)

University of Florida (1)

Soka University of America (1)
Rice University (4)
San Diego State University (3)
University of California at San Diego (17)

Brigham Young University-Hawaii (1)
University of Hawaii at Manoa (1)

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“We extend our sincere thanks to parents, community members and
businesses who gave generously to support our $1.3 million grant to the
high school district this year. We wish our graduates continued
success as they ‘map their futures’. ”
- Laura Roberts, Executive Director of the MVLA High School Foundation

(Century 20, Century 16)
“Dawn of the Planet of the
Apes” is the latest in a series
of modern Hollywood action
reboots, which aim to transform a campy and droll movie
into a gloomy and serious
film. The Dark Knight trilogy
helped set the precedent for
this recent cinematic trend, as
Christopher Nolan swapped
out caricature villains with
dubious motivations for twisted and tortured souls bent on
revenge, and exchanged “Holy
smokes, Batman!” exclamations with dark, philosophical
orations. “Cloverfield” director
Matt Reeves’ latest film, the
second in a series of prequels
to the 1968 classic “Planet of
the Apes,” follows Nolan’s lead.
In the original film, based off
Pierre Boulle’s “La PlanËte des
singes,” talking primates carry
firearms, ride on horseback
and appear in other scenarios
designed to at least partially
amuse viewers. In “Dawn,”
we also see apes talk while
carrying guns on horseback,
but their glowering faces are
menacing.
Don’t think the film’s seriousness is a pitfall, however — it’s
appropriate. The film envisions the breakout of a virus
that ravages most of humanity
and leaves survivors scattered
and largely disconnected from
each other. The virus results
from a drug, designed to cure
Alzheimer’s, that in 2011’s “Rise
of the Planet of the Apes” is
used to genetically enhance the
intellect of apes that serve as

test subjects. The consequences
of this drug are staggering.
While a human community
led by Dreyfus (Gary Oldman)
lives within the ruins of San
Francisco in near hopelessness,
the apes enjoy near utopian
prosperity under the unquestioned leadership of the first
genetically modified simian,
Caesar (Andy Serkis). When
the two communities collide,
the natural order comes under
threat of even greater disruption.
The film’s chief cinematic
assets are its apes, portrayed by
actors in motion capture suits.
Serkis, perhaps most famous for
his portrayal of Gollum in The
Lord of the Rings films, earned
Oscar hype for his performance
in “Rise” and some believed his
exclusion from the Best Supporting Actor category was a
snub. Whether performance
capture acting merits Academy
Award consideration, the performers behind the apes all give
compelling performances that
contribute greatly to the story.
Watching them hunt deer,
fight grizzly bears and speak
to each other in sign recalls the
memory and appeal of silent
films. The actors’ motions and
gestures are supremely artful
and New Zealand-based Weta
Digital’s computer animation
is as realistic as it gets.
It is perhaps inevitable that
the human characters lack
much of the dimensionality
and nuance given to their simian counterparts. One exception is Malcolm (Jason Clarke).
In his first leading role since
“Zero Dark Thirty,” Clarke
exhibits big-screen charisma

as a survivor of the virus who
must negotiate with the apes
to bring electric power to the
human community. The fact
that his character — and Caesar, for that matter — possesses
the name of two Shakespearean
characters who struggle against
conspiracy and betrayal is surely no accident.
When it comes down to the
fighting, Reeves knows how to
capture mayhem. In contrast
to his use of shaky, hand-held
camera work in the alien disaster cult favorite, “Cloverfield,”
Reeves uses long, steady takes.
This allows him to effectively
choreograph the acrobatics of
the apes. As a result, the film
represents a refreshing break
from the chaos cinema of many
mainstream action features,
which seek more to disorient
than to entertain.
“Dawn of the Planet of the
Apes” won’t waste your time
or money, and it succeeds in
disturbing viewers because it
makes an effort to be plausible. The steps the apes take to
acquire power from humans are
logical and don’t leave behind
plot holes. The film plays off
the threat terrorists groups pose
in the Middle East and reveals
how frightening social instability can be. The original film
frightened audiences by showing how humans could regress
to occupy an order lower than
that of apes; “Dawn of the
Planet of the Apes” updates that
fear to the modern age.
Rated PG-13 for intense scifi violence and brief strong
language. Two hours and 10
minutes.
—Cooper Aspegren

For show times, plot synopses,
trailers and more movie
info, visit www.mv-voice.com
and click on movies.

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ART GALLERIES

‘Flowers’ by Charles Halleck Bay Area artist Charles Halleck will have on display a series of
color photographs of flowers, depicting a variety
of flower colors and types. An artist reception will
be held on Thursday, July 10, from 5:30 to 7:30
p.m. July 1-26, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.;
Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Free. Gallery 9, 143 Main St.,
Los Altos. www.gallery9losaltos.com

BENEFITS/FUNDRAISERS
Mid-Summer DiaBeats Benefit Concert
The American Diabetes Association will hold a
fundraiser at Shoup Park, showcasing local talent. Live acts will include Josh Friedman and Iari
Melchor and Libertine Circle. There will also be an
art show and free pizza. July 12, 7-9:30 p.m. $30
suggested donation for adults, $5 for students.
Shoup Park Garden House, 400 University Ave.,
Los Altos. Call 650-814-9923. www.facebook.
com/events/246995092161761/?ref_dashboard_
filter=upcoming

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS
TV Studio Production Camp In this camp for
students in grades 9 to 12, participants will learn a
variety of skills needed to produce, direct and act
in television shows in a professional studio. July
14-18, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $450. Midpeninsula Community Media Center, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo
Alto. Call 650-494-8686 ext. 27. midpenmedia.
org

CLUBS/MEETINGS
Astronomy club monthly meeting At this
Peninsula Astronomical Society Meeting, Dr. Richard McCray of University of California, Berkeley,
will give a talk called “Supernova 1987A,” focusing on one of the brightest supernovas and what
scientists are learning from it. The observatory will
be open after the meeting, weather permitting.
July 11, 7:30-9 p.m. Free; $3 parking fee. Foothill
College, Room 5015, 12345 El Monte Road, Los
Altos Hills. www.pastro.org/dnn/
ESL Conversation Club Those learning or
improving English are invited to come practice at
club meetings with casual conversation and friendly company. All levels are welcome, no registration
required. Wednesdays, year-round, 5-6 p.m. Free.

COMMUNITY EVENTS
Lunchtime Legos for Grown-ups The
Mountain View Public Library will hold this event
where adults can have lunch together and build
with Legos. No registration is required. July 17,
noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Mountain View Public
Library, Community Room, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Call 650-526-7020. goo.gl/eOeT7b

CONCERTS
U.S. Japan Friendship Special Music
Concert Ten musicians with autism from Japan
and the U.S. will perform both separately and then
together in this concert’s finale. Kayoko Hosokawa,
the former first lady of Japan and founder of the
Special Olympics Nippon, will introduce the musicians. A family concert will be held at 1:30 p.m.,
followed by a formal recital at 3:30 p.m. July 13,
1:30-5 p.m. $50 VIP; $20 general. Community
School of Music and Arts, Finn Center, 230 San
Antonio Circle, Mountain View. arts4all.brownpapertickets.com

EXHIBITS
‘Fearless Genius’ The Computer History Museum will have on display a photography exhibit by
Doug Menuz called “Fearless Genius: The Digital
Revolution in Silicon Valley, 1985-2000.” It consists
of 50 photographs documenting innovators at
Apple, Leiner Perkins, Adobe and other companies. July 9-September 7, 10 a.m. $15 general;
$12 student/senior/military. Computer History
Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View.
www.computerhistory.org/events
‘Huangshan and Zhangjiajie, China’
The exhibit “Huangshan and Zhangjiajie, China:
Photographs of Land and Culture” will be on

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journalist with a passion for the worlds of art and entertainment.
The ideal candidate for the full-time job of Arts & Entertainment Editor
will be knowledgeable about the local scene, from Mountain View to
Redwood City. You are as adept at covering the traditional arts as you
are great nightlife. You can tweet from events, brainstorm multimedia
features and dive into arts education. As A&E Editor, you will be
responsible for seeking out and keeping our readership informed of all
the signiﬁcant and interesting arts happenings via our website (www.
paloaltoonline.com/arts), weekly print edition and social media.
This is a great opportunity for an organized and creative self-starter
who also enjoys working as part of a team. Because this is an
editor position, we are looking for someone with a strong journalism
background and plenty of ideas. Solid editing, writing and social media
skills a must. Please email your resume, cover letter and three A&Erelated clips to Editor Jocelyn Dong at jdong@paweekly.com, with
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FAMILY AND KIDS
Helix summer sessions Helix will offer summer camp sessions for ages 5 to 14 where kids
can learn about the world through investigation.
Participants can explore exhibits and spend time
learning in the workshop. Monday-Friday, July
7-August 15, 1-4 p.m. $200 member; $250 nonmember. Helix by Exploratorium, 316 State St., Los
Altos. helixlosaltos.org/helix-summer-sessions
Summer Nature Days Santa Clara Valley
Audubon Society, the Midpeninsula Regional Open
Space District and Shoreline at Mountain View will
hold outdoor day camp adventures for children
in grades two to six. Children will learn about the
world around them — bugs, birds, plants, creeks
and more — and get dirty. July 21-25, 9 a.m.-3
p.m. $295/child (multi-child discounts, scholarships available). Various locations, including Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve and Shoreline
Lake. Call 408-252-3740. www.scvas.org/index.
php?page=text&id=event
Theater & Dance Camp The Green Room
Teaching Artists, Maggie Cole and Kristina
Sutherland, will run a weeklong camp for children
in kindergarten through fifth grade full of theater
and dance activities. It will also include games, arts
and crafts, singing and percussion, and a final performance for family and friends. July 21-25, 9:30
a.m.-1 p.m. $150. The Pear Avenue Theater, 1220
Pear Ave., Mountain View. Call 650-575-9814.
www.the-green-room.co

FILM
Hidden Villa Film Series: ‘The Singing
Revolution’ As part of its summer film series,
nonprofit Hidden Villa will screen the documentary, “The Singing Revolution,” which tells how
Estonians used cultural songs and traditions in
the political fight to free themselves from Soviet
occupation. Conversation, live music and a picnic
will follow the film. July 13, 5 p.m. Free. Hidden
Villa, 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. Call
650-949-9702. www.hiddenvilla.org/programs/
public-programs/duveneck-forum
Summer Outdoor Movie Night Series
For the first in a series of events, a screening of
“Monsters University” will be shown at Cuesta
Park. The movie will begin at 8:30 p.m. or when it
becomes dark. Attendees should bring a blanket or
lawn chair. The program is sponsored by the City of
Mountain View and the Youth Advisory Committee. July 11, 8:30-10 p.m. Free. Cuesta Park, 615
Cuesta Drive, Mountain View. Call 650-903-6331.
www.mountainview.gov/depts/cs/events/summermovie.asp
Summer Outdoor Movie Night Series
The next film to be shown in this movie series at
Mountain View parks will be “The Nut Job” at
Sylvan Park. The movie will begin at 8:30 p.m. or
when it becomes dark. Attendees should bring a
blanket or lawn chair. The program is sponsored by
the City of Mountain View and the Youth Advisory
Committee. July 18, 8:30-10 p.m. Free. Sylvan
Park, 600 Sylvan Ave., Mountain View. Call 650903-6331. www.mountainview.gov/depts/cs/
events/summermovie.asp

LIVE MUSIC
Bodacious Bay Area band Bodacious will play a
set of their fusion of funk, punk, country and roots
rock at O’Malley’s. Attendees must be 21 or older.
July 11, 9 p.m.-midnight. Free. O’Malley’s Sports
Pub, 2135 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View.
Call 650-965-1162. www.facebook.com/omalleyssportspub.net

SENIORS
Community Services Agency on Housing The Community Services Agency’s Senior
Case Managers will be available by appointment
to provide resources on landlord-tenant disputes,
information on low-income housing and guidance
in drafting lease agreements. Appointments are
required. July 15, 10-11 a.m. Free. Mountain View
Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View.
Call 650-903-6330. www.ci.mtnview.ca.us/depts/
cs/rec/senior/default.asp
Talk on the Day Worker Center At this
event, attendees can learn about the Day Worker
Center, one of the senior center’s neighbors —
including about who works there, how the program works and the handyman services it offers.
July 17, 1-2 p.m. Free. Mountain View Senior
Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. Call
650-903-6330. www.mountainview.gov/depts/
cs/rec/senior/default.asp

SPECIAL EVENTS
‘Traveling Stitches’ Mountain View City Hall
will have on display in its rotunda an exhibit of
quilts made at the Day Worker Center of Mountain
View called “Traveling Stitches.” A reception will
be held on Friday, July 11, from 5 to 7 p.m. July
7-31, City Hall hours. Free. Mountain View City Hall
Rotunda, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. Call 650903-4102. www.dayworkercentermv.org
K-Pop World Festival competition Fans of
Korean pop music will compete for a chance to go
to the K-Pop World Festival in Korea. Contestants
and spectators are welcome. The event is cosponsored by the San Francisco Korean Consulate

LECTURES & TALKS
‘Dry Times’ panel discussion A panel
discussion entitled “Dry Times: Urgent Bay Area
Water Issues” will be held in Palo Alto, with time
included for questions. Jim Fielder, Santa Clara
Valley Water District chief operating officer; Arthur
R. Jensen, former chief executive officer of the Bay
Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency;
and San Jose Mercury News drought reporters
Lisa Krieger and Paul Roger will participate. July
17, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Lucie Stern Community
Center, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Call
510-390-1779. www.surveymonkey.com/s/
July17drought
Author Erika Johansen on ‘The Queen
of the Tearling’ Local author Erika Johansen
will share her debut work and the first in a series,
a fantasy with adventure and romance called
“The Queen of the Tearling.” July 11, 7 p.m. Free.
Books Inc., 301 Castro St., Mountain View. Call
650-428-1234. booksinc.net/event/2014/07/17/
month/all/all/1
Author Tina Gilbertson on “Constructive Wallowing” Tina Gilbertson will read
from and sign her book, “Constructive Wallowing:
How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself
Have Them.” July 15, 7:30 p.m. Free. East West
Bookshop, 324 Castro St., Mountain View. www.
eastwest.com
Legal Hacking for Startups Donna Petkanics, who was recognized by the Silicon Valley Business Journal as a “Woman of Influence,” will give
a talk on important legal matters to keep in mind
when setting up a startup. July 17, 7-10 p.m. $10.
Hacker Dojo, 599 Fairchild Drive, Mountain View.
Call 650-224-3812. irajlal.com

TEEN ACTIVITIES
Sports Broadcasting Workshop In this
week-long workshop for students in grades 6
to 8, participants will learn various broadcasting
skills out of the mobile production truck as they
cover real games and create programs that will be
aired on local television. July 14-18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
$475. Midpeninsula Community Media Center,
900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. Call 650-4948686 ext. 37. midpenmedia.org
Youth Claymation Camp In these weeklong
camps for ages 10 to 14, students will learn how
to create clay animation with the stop-motion
techniques used in such movies as the Wallace &
Gromit films and “Chicken Run.” Small groups of
students will come up with a story, mold, animate
and edit a film for their final projects. MondayFriday, July 7-August 15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $325.
KMVT 15 Community Television, 1400 Terra Bella
Ave., Suite M, Mountain View. Call 650-968-1540.
www.kmvt15.org
Youth Studio Production Camp This
summer KMVT 15 will hold weeklong camps for
students ages 10 to 14, where students can use
professional studio equipment to gain skills in
camera work, directing, sound design, acting and
producing. By the end of each camp, students
will have produced segments which will be
broadcast on cable Channel 15. Monday-Friday,
June 9-August 15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $369. KMVT 15
Community Television, 1400 Terra Bella Ave., Suite
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enterprises, including the region’s most
respected and award-winning community newspapers and specialty publications, websites and e-mail marketing
products.
Locally-owned and independent for 34
years, we publish the Palo Alto Weekly,
Mountain View Voice and Almanac
on the Peninsula and the Pleasanton
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all of our cities, plus unique online-only
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* Can manage and maintain client information in our CRM database system, is
proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel
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social media
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approaches and behaviors in response
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therapy, dietetics, or gerontology is
required. At least two years of administrative or supervisory experience in
a direct service program, preferably in
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computer skills required. Knowledge of
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supervise a diverse group of professional and paraprofessional staff and
volunteers.
Fingerprints and DOJ/FBI criminal background investigation is required.
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Statement
TERRAIN BIOMETRICS
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 593055
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Terrain Biometrics, located at 675
Campbell Technology Parkway,
Campbell, CA 95008, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by: A
Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
AOptix Technologies, Inc.
675 Campbell Technology Pkwy.
Campbell, CA 95008
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 11, 2014.
(MVV June 20, 27, July 4, 11, 2014)
SONGGOTU INTERNATIONAL
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 593102
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Songgotu International, located at 2005
West Middlefield Rd. Apt. #2, Mountain
View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
JIANDU WEN
2005 West Middlefield Rd.
Apt. #2
Mountain View, CA 94043

Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 13, 2014.
(MVV June 20, 27, July 4, 11, 2014)
CUSTOM CLEAR BRA
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 592893
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Custom Clear Bra, located at 151
East Evelyn Ave #I, Mountain View, CA
94041, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
WILLIAM WORTZ
151 East Evelyn Ave. #I
Mountain View, CA 94041
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 6/6/14.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 6, 2014.
(MVV June 20, 27, July 4, 11, 2014)
UNIQUE NAILS
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 593127
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Unique Nails, located at 1247 W.
El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA
94040, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
NGOC QUYEN THI PHAM

1400 Firestone Loop
San Jose, CA 95116
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 6/13/14.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 13, 2014.
(MVV June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 2014)
MALDONADOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PIZZERIA
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 593326
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Maldonadoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizzeria, located at 615 B
South Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View,
CA 94040, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
ANTONIO M. MALDONADO
256 2nd. Ave.
Redwood City, CA 94063
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 08-19-99.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 18, 2014.
(MVV June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 2014)
RHYTHM SOUL
SOUL LEGACY
NORI DESIGN
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 593512
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
1.) Rhythm Soul, 2.) Soul Legacy, 3.)
Nori Design, located at 229 Diablo
Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043,
Santa Clara County.

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The name and residence address of the
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JENNIFER NORI AHLGRIM
229 Diablo Ave.
Mtn. View, CA 94043
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 24, 2014.
(MVV July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2014)
GETINSURED
GETINSURED.COM
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 592780
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
1.) GetInsured, 2.) GetInsured.com,
located at 1305 Terra Bella Ave.,
Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by: A
Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
VIMO, INC.
1305 Terra Bella Ave.
Mountain View, CA 94043
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 8/1/2008.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 4, 2014.
(MVV July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2014)
INKI DROP
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 593531
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
inki Drop, located at 939 Rich Ave. Apt.
1, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):

MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ
939 Rich Ave. Apt. 1
Mountain View, CA 94040
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 06/01/2014.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 24, 2014.
(MVV July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2014)
18|8 FINE MENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALONS
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 593468
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
18|8 Fine Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Salons, located at 565
San Antonio Road Suite 24, Mountain
View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: A
Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
WHEATSTRONG ENTERPRISES
1244 Laurel Hill Drive
San Mateo, CA 94402
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 23, 2014.
(MVV July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2014)

WELLSPRING PSYCHOLOGICAL
SERVICES
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No.: 593546
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Wellspring Psychological Services,
located at 229 Polaris Ave., Suite #6,
Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
CAROLINE C. FLECK
67 Pyle Lane
Milpitas, CA 95035
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on June 24, 2014.
(MVV July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2014)

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